Abstract:

This thesis, by studying today’s implementation of the new English Curriculum and junior middle school students’ special psychological features, concrete and sensitive to knowledge learning, tries to advocate the experience teaching based on Kolb’s theory. At the same time, the paper also emphasizes the importance and necessity of changing teachers’ roles in the new situation. Based on the literature review concerning Kolb’s theory and his theory of the experience teaching method, this paper elaborates on the characteristics of the experience teaching method and its adoption in junior middle school classroom teaching through some examples. It is concluded that the experience teaching method should be highly advocated and it is applicable to junior middle school classroom instruction and that teachers should be aware of the necessity of role-changing and adapt themselves to the new round of the English curriculum reform. Accordingly, some suggestions for the adoption of the experience teaching method in junior middle school classroom teaching are proposed in the paper.

Key words: the National English Curriculum; experience teaching method; Kolb’s theory; teachers’ roles

摘要：

本文通过研究当下的新课改和初中生具体感性的心理特征，倡导基于库伯理论而提出的体验式教学法并强调在新形势下教师角色的转变得必要性。本文介绍了目前现有的对库伯理论的研究和体验式教学法的理论即库伯理论，并分析了体验式教学法的三个主要特征以及列举体验式教学在初中英语教学中的实例。结论表明，体验式教学法值得提倡并应用到初中英语课堂教学中；同时，教师应该意识到角色转变的必要性，能够积极调整自身的角色以适应新课程改革。尽管体验式教学法在当下教学中应用广泛，本文还给初中英语教师在实际英语教学中提出了些建议。

关键词：英语课程标准；体验式教学法；库伯理论；教师的角色

1. Introduction
Along with the new round of basic education reform, more attention than ever before has been paid to each student’s over-all development. As is required in the reform, students should be put in the center of all the teaching activities, and this means that all classroom teaching activities should be designed and organized to meet the needs of students and to be aimed at their development. English educators have been always trying to work out a better method to improve their teaching efficiency. Up to now, many teaching methods have been created and put into practice, for example, the Total Physical Response, the Communicative Language Teaching, Task-based Language Teaching and so forth. Nowadays, the experience teaching method, which is based on Constructivism theory as an advanced educational and teaching idea, has drawn great attention. The experiential teaching approach is a students-centered and task-based teaching approach that can enable students to apply what they have learnt to practical communication through their own experiences in class.